The Man Who Would Be King

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  • Posted By: emptywallet @ 10/12/2008 12:59:51 AM

    We already have a "King" in the White House and he has a Pirnce, Dick Cheney.
    And Paulson is the Emporer -he's go the loot 700B give or take a few B's.

  • Posted By: zuluflub07 @ 10/12/2008 12:36:15 AM

    OMG...who thought this was newsworthy?

  • Posted By: Hearwegoagain @ 10/12/2008 12:34:27 AM

    If the man did not have any children what exactly are we talking about here? What laws would a person apply in this case? We have never had a monarchy so this article really doesn't make any sense at all!

  • Posted By: pablito04 @ 10/11/2008 10:36:26 PM

    Actually this article is completely false. For this to occur would be highly unlikely if Washington was crowned King instead of President. Sure this fellow may be a descendant of Washington, but he is the decendant thanks to Washington and MANY members up the family tree. The course of America would have been much different and the Washington family created with respect to time would have been different as well. I highly doubt Washington's grand-children would have married the same people if they were kings as if the were regular ordinary people. Course of time changes everything. This man would have not existed. Gene-pool would have been very different. Think about it.

    • Posted By: pablito04 @ 10/11/2008 10:42:17 PM

      grand-children, cousin's heirs, etc.s same difference - (referring to my comment regarding "washington's grand-children" it came to my attention he did not have children. But the context of the comment still makes complete sense.

  • Posted By: EbonySaint @ 10/11/2008 9:43:43 PM

    I agfree with our nation's first President that anyone can be a great leader. I feel that after reading this information that the editor is trying to put in readers minds that only one race should govern this country. All men are created equal. Thank God George Washington made the right decision.

  • Posted By: GeorgeU1951 @ 10/11/2008 9:11:24 PM

    "Crazy racial supremacy" ? You must have read a different article.

    • Posted By: kgnews @ 10/11/2008 9:19:08 PM

      I was referring to the readers comments listed below. Read down through them if you want to be a little shocked and dismayed.

  • Posted By: malene @ 10/08/2008 10:46:11 PM

    my 7 year old asked me why there is a black history month and not a white history month. can anyone help me answer that for him?

    • Posted By: kgnews @ 10/11/2008 9:15:22 PM

      I think over time, hopefully, there will be no need for a specifically called out Black History Month because we will all be living in a society of equality where this would be of no issue. I know this sounds all "Kumbaya" and all but it really is what our country is suposed to be based on and we are hopefully progressing towards that. Not to bring up someone from the Bush Administration but...Condoleeza Rice had a nice quote about our country always working towards progress and eaulity for all. And how we are not there yet but she has confidence that one day we will achieve that place as a beacon of true equality and democracy. I also think it is difficult to explain to such young children that our counrty has a very dark side i.e. slavery, Jim Crow, etc on top of disparities of weath and opportunity. However, it would probably benefit everyone to start to open childrens eyes so they cn grow up to be rational and non-bigoted adults trying to better themselves and the community...and the world. My Kumbaya song is over.

  • Posted By: malene @ 10/08/2008 10:32:19 PM

    i agree kgnews. looks like alot of these people need prozac.

    • Posted By: kgnews @ 10/11/2008 9:03:33 PM

      thank you. I never write on these things but I saw all the crazy racial supremacy comments and couldn't believe it. I had to say something. I can't believe the madness that this fluff piece gas been garnering.

  • Posted By: oldfan46 @ 10/11/2008 7:41:59 PM

    What a waste of time and resources!

  • Posted By: oldfan46 @ 10/11/2008 7:41:21 PM

    What a waste of time and resources!

  • Posted By: be humble @ 10/11/2008 6:47:48 PM

    I am tried of looking at this guy's picture, get rid of it.

  • Posted By: DADuryee @ 10/11/2008 6:00:54 PM

    One thing about this article confuses me. How can Paul and his family be "direct" descendants of George Washington when, as the article clearly states, Washington was childless. I'm not an expert on geneology but it seems logical that if one has no children, one would have no descendants. They are direct descendants of George's brother Samuel, not George himself.
    The whole point is really ludicrous when one considers that the whole point of the revolutionary for most of the colonists was to get out from under the heel of a monarchy. The idea was probably floated by some "nobles" who suddenly realized that without a monarchy, they were just the same as everyone else. thank goodness Washington had the sense to refuse them.

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 10/11/2008 6:42:31 PM



      I agree. . . I, myself, find the article a ludicrous fairy tale.

  • Posted By: mturn4621 @ 10/11/2008 6:13:49 PM

    Well first wmseven it seems to me you don't know anything about this country's history...maybe you need to do a little more studying. this country was founded on religion and morals and so much more. here is just some of the truth behind what America was founded on...April 10, 1606 ??? The Charter for the Virginia Colony read in part:
    ???To the glory of His divine Majesty, in propagating of the Christian religion to such people as yet live in ignorance of the true knowledge and worship of God.???
    March 4, 1629 ??? The first Charter of Massachusetts read in part:
    ???For the directing, ruling, and disposeing of all other Matters and Thinges, whereby our said People may be soe religiously, peaceablie, and civilly governed, as their good life and orderlie Conversacon, maie wynn and incite the Natives of the Country to the Knowledg and Obedience of the onlie true God and Savior of Mankinde, and the Christian Fayth, which in our Royall Intencon, and The Adventurers free profession, is the principall Ende of the Plantacion..???
    At least 50 out of the 55 men who framed the Constitution of the United States were professing Christians. (M.E. Bradford, A Worthy Company, Plymouth Rock Foundation., 1982).
    Eleven of the first 13 States required faith in Jesus Christ and the Bible as qualification for holding public office.
    The Constitution of each of the 50 States acknowledges and calls upon the Providence of God for the blessings of freedom.
    I hope you from now on think before opening that mouth of yours jackass...


    • Posted By: sharenews @ 10/11/2008 6:41:09 PM


      Oops, I meant to post this to the blogger below. Sorry about that. But I did enjoy the history you posted in your blog. ; 0 D

    • Posted By: sharenews @ 10/11/2008 6:39:13 PM


      I agree. . . I, myself, find the article a ludicrous fairy tale.

  • Posted By: ceus @ 10/11/2008 12:50:49 PM

    I disagree with the writer's assumption that George Washington is akin to "Joe Six-Pack", on the contrary; Washington came from a family of gentry and means (as evidenced by a similar related article).

    By the way, I do not want "one of us" or "Joe Six-pack" leading this Country; I want someone smarter than me or "us" and that is the point!

    • Posted By: DADuryee @ 10/11/2008 6:05:51 PM

      If you go back and read more carefully, ou will see that the writer was comparing Paul not george to Joe six pack.

    • Posted By: Alexandra_Covington @ 10/11/2008 1:49:41 PM

      "Smarter than us??????? Whom do you mean? Just because someone is rich, or well-educated, it doesn't mean they are "smart"! (The Unibomber, rememver, went to college!) Beibg intelligent is only ONE goveening factor in being a leader. The MOST IMPORTANT thing in being a leader in a Democracy, is, I think, using that intelligence to HELP OTHERS! Many evil men, (and women), were intellgent....AND SELFISH! BELIEVING in the Founding Father's phrase, "All Men Are Created Equal", is MORE important than super-intelligence, I think!

      There is even a REAL story oif a simple French farmboy, who, a few decades ago, was tested for intelligence....and found to be a genuis!

      What about Abraham Lincoln....who only had a fourth-grade education? And Leonardo Da Vinci was an illegimate child! (That's why his last name -- da Vinci -- was of a town, not of a father!) And -- a few centuries later -- another young boy was told by his teachers he would amount to nothing. This boy's name was ALBERT EINSTEIN!

      THE MOST IMPORTANT STORY FOR OUR 'LEADERS' TO REMEMBER IS THIS: One day in the 1930s, WILL ROGERS said he wanted to go down to Washington DC, TO SEE HOW OUR HIRED HELP IS GETTING ON. "Elected" officials must realize this. THEY ARE NOTHING MORE, OR LESS, THAN THE ' HIRED HELP ' of us, their FELLOW citizens!!!!!!!!!

      Yes, to be a Leader, one needs intelligence. But

  • Posted By: Oxnyx @ 10/11/2008 12:44:51 PM

    This entire discussion thread is indicative that way too many people have way too much spare time on their hands. Go out and do something productive. Do some yard work, do your laundry, try some volunteer work to help those less fortunate than yourself. just stop the griping and whining. We've become a nation of sissies, slackers, & pantywaists.

    • Posted By: DADuryee @ 10/11/2008 6:04:14 PM

      very funny, I notice however that you fail to heed your own advice...

  • Posted By: thinice @ 10/11/2008 5:11:07 PM

    Thanks to wmseven for your comments! Like to occasionally read someone who thinks! No need to call names though! Tolerance man, tolerance..............

  • Posted By: SONIK BIZZLE @ 10/11/2008 12:35:36 PM

    This is to that wmseven guy that dropped the second stupid comment.Are four fathers built this country under Christianity.One nation under God my bizzle.Every dumb ass seems to forget that!

    • Posted By: WMSEVEN @ 10/11/2008 4:40:36 PM

      For all you uneducated Americans out there , in 1797 George Washington stated at the Treaty of Tripoli "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion" and the Constitution forms a secular document, and nowhere does it appeal to God, Christianity, Jesus, or any supreme being, Thomas Jefferson made an interpretation of the 1st Amendment to his January 1st, 1802 letter to the Committee of the Danbury Baptist Association calling it a "wall of separation between church and State." Madison had also written that "Strongly guarded. . . is the separation between religion and government in the Constitution of the United States." There existed little controversy about this interpretation from our Founding Fathers.

      Oh by the way, the phrase "one nation under God" or "In god we trust" was only added to the American lexicon in the 1950's as a way of telling the Sovet Union we were "god fearing" Americans and they were "Godless" communists. The connection to any God has nothing to do with the founding of this great country.

      And by the way moron, it is spelled forefathers not "four" fathers as you stated.

  • Posted By: idonow @ 10/11/2008 4:33:05 PM

    if they had offered the crown to button gwinnett he would have taken it !! and today i would be king and then i could order all you buffoons to get off the internet get to work and pay for my new Ferrari

  • Posted By: WMSEVEN @ 10/11/2008 4:24:26 PM

    Dear Sara Sota and all other Pagan worshippers of all deities, this is the twenty-first century and peace will only come from a respect and embracing of each others common humanity. Once the divisive attitudes of all world religions are dead then we can move forward into the non-dogmatic enlightenment Christ spoke of two thousand years ago.

    Organized religion reflects the possessive and acquisitive traits which invite wars and separation instead of evolved, harmonious society. Masses are easily influenced by imaginative, aggressive leaders, be it pastor, priest, or president. Jesus' halo did not manifest from citing scripture against others ... nor from pews, picket lines or rubberized yoga mats. Such enlightenment arises from long, sweat-filled years of solo practice, meditation, and the surrender of self for the benefit of all beings in all realms. The great tenets of religion are livable only by a devoted few, though many of us profess or even preach belief in them. The definition of a belief is "limitation." Therein lies the Great Itch. Who was it that taught us to limit the love, light, and teachings of our Great Masters? The limitless kingdom of ???god??? is found far, far beyond paltry human capacity for -- and addiction to -- belief. To behave as humbly or to love as unconditionally as Christ, Buddha, or any Enlightened Master pivots upon tolerance and forgiveness.

    Personally, I could care less if someone wants to love and marry a pink elephant. Great! More Love the Higher we all vibrate. Perhaps like the decaying, crucified trees within a forest, we should cut down our old, dead beliefs.

    PS . . . Buddhism is not a religion and Buddha is not a god and Buddhists don???t claim otherwise. Buddha was a teacher and his students still live by the word as opposed to Christians who put their teacher through the process of deification and created a religion. Christians, as the self appointed guardians of morality, now march goosestep with all extremists in the quest to reinvent history and the world in their own twisted image.

  • Posted By: ladyrebel35 @ 10/11/2008 3:41:45 PM

    George Washington didn't have children of his own, he and martha raised her son and daughter and their grandchildren. So in that light we just don't know who would have taken the thrown when he died. But he didn't choose the Monarchy so I see no reason to announce that the Washington(Custis line declaring the could have been kings. That is kind of like " If the dog didn't stop to ____ he would have caught the rabbit."

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